tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5651366957725908312..comments2015-08-02T12:53:19.743-07:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Sailing in StyleZephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20888208936383317272014-01-28T03:42:49.603-08:002014-01-28T03:42:49.603-08:00Williams: Let&#39;s go on a sea cruise (not)...<a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/and-not-drop-to-drink-william-carlos.html" rel="nofollow">Williams: Let&#39;s go on a sea cruise (not)...</a>TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61585497686684676182014-01-28T01:56:13.154-08:002014-01-28T01:56:13.154-08:00Fred Neil: Dolphins
Tim Buckley covers Dolphins, ...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8g_j5y2OK4" rel="nofollow">Fred Neil: Dolphins</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU-9EMSYu0" rel="nofollow">Tim Buckley covers Dolphins, Whistle Test, May 1974</a>TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49584683748617580872014-01-28T01:30:07.131-08:002014-01-28T01:30:07.131-08:00Arms with hands grasping seek to clutch at the pro...Arms with hands grasping seek to clutch at the prows.<br />Bodies thrown recklessly in the way are cut aside.<br />It is a sea of faces about them in agony, in despair<br /><br />until the horror of the race dawns staggering the mind;<br />the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies<br />lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,<br /><br />beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up<br />they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising<br />in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.<br /><br /> William Carlos Williams: The Yachts (final stanzas)TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62821705432394477532014-01-28T00:19:12.104-08:002014-01-28T00:19:12.104-08:00From the looks of it, Perkins probably spent too m...From the looks of it, Perkins probably spent too much time--was that four years?--perusing Steel to fully appreciate Williams’ “The Yachts”, especially the last three stanzas.<br />http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7351vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66632909416097281122014-01-27T23:57:45.745-08:002014-01-27T23:57:45.745-08:00The link is certainly apropos, Duncan. Paul Weller...The link is certainly apropos, Duncan. Paul Weller&#39;s class rage was misunderstood by fools as class envy. A projection.<br /><br />A very intense early performance of the same tune, followed by a yet intenser out-of-body Ian Curtis rendition of &quot;Transmission&quot; (Trance-Mission), a song that blows to bits everything summoned by the words &quot;venture capital&quot;:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrRkLlol9Q" rel="nofollow">Something Else (TV), Manchester 1979: The Jam: Eton Rifles / Joy Division: Transmission</a><br /><br />Manik, spot on, every word, especially the reference to that &quot;damned spot&quot;.<br /><br />As the name of Ms. Steel the Number-One Celebrity Author and Philanthropist Who Made San Francisco Famous has now entered the colloquium, perhaps a bit of the romantic backdrop will help.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-New-Chapter-In-Steel-Romance-Author-to-marry-3013336.php" rel="nofollow">A New Chapter in Steel Romance: Author to Marry Financier Tom Perkins, by Trish Donnally, Fashion Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 February 1998</a><br /><br />The Steel/Perkins union lasted about as long as Mr Perkins&#39; infatuation with the idea of having the biggest yacht in the universe. That is, four years.<br /><br />Her sales figures are given in that sixteen-year-old piece as c. 380 million copies sold -- or I suppose we ought to say units moved -- worldwide.<br /><br />But to her credit Ms. Steel hasn&#39;t just been sharpening pencils in the interim, thanks. More recent data puts her at 800 million copies sold, thus making her the fourth best-selling author of all time.<br /><br />Mr Perkins has also tried his hand at romance-novel-writing:<br /><br />&quot;True Romance<br /><br />&quot;Danielle Steel talked Tom Perkins, her ex-husband and a multimillionaire Silicon Valley mogul, into writing a steamy novel.&quot;<br /><br />By Pui-Wing Tam and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2006 <br /> <br />&quot;Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins says a British television studio proposed in 2003 that he star in a reality TV show: he would date a string of young women, then marry one of them. He turned the offer down, but thought the idea might make a good novel. He jotted down a 12-page outline and gave it to his ex-wife -- Danielle Steel.<br /><br />&quot;Ms. Steel, a queen of romance writing, turned the tables. &#39;I said, &#39;&quot;You have to write this... &#39;<br /><br />But the sales figures... uh-oh.<br /><br />A fanciful scenarist developing the story of this couple&#39;s several years of basking in the money together might be forgiven for coming up with a scene in which both authors coincidentally receive their royalty checks on the same day.<br /><br />&quot;Mine&#39;s Bigger!!&quot;TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58787741107990896382014-01-27T21:07:13.230-08:002014-01-27T21:07:13.230-08:00Tom,
I&#39;m not sure if Mr Perkin&#39;s ordered ...Tom,<br /><br />I&#39;m not sure if Mr Perkin&#39;s ordered the right DVD to educate himself about the verticals and horizontals of then Nazi Germany. His take on the holocaust seems pretty close to what a Jew-hating- porn director would scribble his storyboard with..It would be interesting to know if Mr Perkins would have invited the number-one celebrity of the Nazi era aboard his yacht(considering how pleasant the one-percent are to be around).<br />Progressive thought should imply for them google techno geeks to have a wider perspective of life,so much so that if one of those buses skids off the bridge tomorrow,I should be able to give more than a fuck.<br />Not all things beautiful,are important(assuming beauty can also be coded,debugged and executed).<br />As for the million&#39;s spent by Danielle Steel on the &#39;mentally ill&#39;, I see where she missed a spot.manik sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9180768735661024942014-01-27T13:03:42.516-08:002014-01-27T13:03:42.516-08:00How insatiable is this old sod&#39;s appetite, tha...How insatiable is this old sod&#39;s appetite, that he has to have himself a taste of victimhood too.<br /><br />As to taste, looking at the pictures of the yacht, it seems it&#39;s one thing money can&#39;t buy you.<br /><br />The 99 percent: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRmrlkYdsQ" rel="nofollow">what chance have we got &#39;gainst a tie and a crest?</a>Wooden Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73844346922139596482014-01-27T11:48:11.940-08:002014-01-27T11:48:11.940-08:00Catching up, here.
Hazen, I&#39;d agree that the ...Catching up, here.<br /><br />Hazen, I&#39;d agree that the mind is the first to go.<br /><br />Nothing else can explain that letter to the editor.<br /><br />Mere hysterical paranoia is not enough.<br /><br />Here the unavailability of health care and public transportation and food for those in need makes it impossible for a rational person to look at the fact of a single individual owning eight billion dollars as anything but an obscenity.<br /><br />The dude&#39;s nutty roping of the Holocaust into the frame, well, that part of the &quot;story&quot; (what story? American rich guy who has everything now wants more??) is strictly from the twilight zone.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82700438890755498132014-01-27T11:13:58.469-08:002014-01-27T11:13:58.469-08:00I suppose the vacancy that overcomes the desperate...I suppose the vacancy that overcomes the desperate hunter after blog content every morning is a terrible thing, vanderleun. When I put up this post I may as well have been putting up flypaper; knew you&#39;d be buzzing in promptly. <br /><br />There must be an eighth sin, the folly that rushes to an inexplicable defense of the indefensible.<br /><br />Anybody who thinks there is a deep innate selfishness and greed that is the controlling element in human nature may well proclaim the breathtaking elevation of personal comfort to the level of religious experience a perfectly natural if not indeed also patriotic act.<br /><br />I have never entertained the slightest desire to own a luxury yacht.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-55949127216181881582014-01-27T11:11:38.170-08:002014-01-27T11:11:38.170-08:00The word for the day—oh hell, for centuries to com...The word for the day—oh hell, for centuries to come—is “disequilibrium.” When things are so egregiously out of balance everything eventually flies apart—(the mind is often the first to go) accompanied, increasingly, by gunfire and explosions. When eighty-five people (that&#39;s single individuals) control as much wealth as the bottom fifty percent of the world’s population we are dealing with a cataclysmic imbalance as global as the “political economy” that it feeds on.Hazenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23072250603787276992014-01-27T09:48:53.123-08:002014-01-27T09:48:53.123-08:00There&#39;s a reason &quot;envy&quot; is listed am...There&#39;s a reason &quot;envy&quot; is listed among the seven deadly sins.vanderleunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84662920404666288122014-01-27T06:24:29.640-08:002014-01-27T06:24:29.640-08:00Hi. I just read, as I should have done before, th...Hi. I just read, as I should have done before, the WSJ piece that Perkins was commenting on and, obviously there are several issues at play here. I expect your description of Perkins&#39; attitudes is exactly correct, but also that he shares these views with his v.c. cohorts of all political stripes. That being said, the original WSJ Censors On Campus piece briefly describes campus phenomena that I&#39;m becoming acutely aware of since college is now exactly on Jane&#39;s horizon. It reminds me of fairly frightening things I see going on at Caroline&#39;s and my own alma mater just down the road and even at Jane&#39;s secondary school. I&#39;ve even been wondering whether it would be either permissible or wise at this point to play Bob Dylan&#39;s If You Gotta Go in mixed company without risking a kangaroo court and summary expulsion. This might sound panicky or excessive, but I recently discussed this with a classmate and friend who&#39;s now a Poli Sci professor there (of distinctly &quot;progressive&quot; stripe) and he has assured me that the things the Journal is reporting are indeed occurring on campus. Fortunately, he also told me that he doesn&#39;t believe our college has a &quot;rape culture,&quot; which has become part of the current campus vernacular that has lately been endorsed by the executive branch of our federal government. CurtisACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8027906981152531172014-01-27T05:53:48.020-08:002014-01-27T05:53:48.020-08:00Curtis, sorry, hadn&#39;t seen yours.
The picture...Curtis, sorry, hadn&#39;t seen yours.<br /><br />The picture of the school bus on the top as well as the other photos of contemporary modes of transportation in the city of Newark are the work of the great urban street photographer and speaker of truth to Power, Joshua Perez.<br /><br />The fact that Perkins sold the obscene luxury tub to a Cypriot hedge fund trader in 2009 is another part of this story, but really the boat is not the point, it&#39;s the disgusting blind arrogance of the super-rich who have bought San Francisco.<br /><br />The implication that the poor are a threat to anybody is laughable to anyone who has actually seen poverty in America of late.<br /><br />&quot;Progressives&quot;, as far as I know, are mostly paid by colleges and universities to be that.<br /><br />There again, no threat, bought situation, talk is cheap. <br /><br />How brave of him to say kind things about the &quot;number one celebrity&quot; even though, or would it be because, he was married to her for approximately one minute.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9798156424340127202014-01-27T05:38:08.870-08:002014-01-27T05:38:08.870-08:00Once he&#39;d had the Bridge raised so that he cou...Once he&#39;d had the Bridge raised so that he could sail under it, the Captain of Capitalism (as he was dubbed by 60 Minutes) lost interest in the Ugliest Sailboat Ever Bought, and &quot;turned it around&quot;, as we inside traders say. <br /><br />Off, then, on his submarine, to Tonga and Beyond.<br /><br />But lest anyone worry, the counteroffensive against the Revolting Army of the Progressives has already been underway for some time now. <br /><br />A few centuries ago, when the Occupy thing was unnecessarily scaring the britches off the Endangered Very Few, I happened to be loitering (with intent to catch the bus) in the vicinity of the &quot;headquarters&quot; of the downtown Occupy encampment, a pathetic little outpost squeezed into a postage stamp size bit of pavement in front of the Bank of America. <br /><br />A few homeless people and lost wastrels of the night were the only audience on hand when a late model car roared past with a party of drunken college boys &quot;having fun&quot; at the expense of the impoverished and helpless. <br /><br />&quot;Fuck the Ninety Nine Percent!&quot; they shouted into the unattending night... speaking of brass.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7351773042138784802014-01-27T05:20:40.803-08:002014-01-27T05:20:40.803-08:00I&#39;ve spent a jolly 30 minutes or so reading up...I&#39;ve spent a jolly 30 minutes or so reading up on the life of Thomas Perkins, where the most memorable thing I learned was the history of Plumpton Place, his Grade II-listed house in East Sussex (and the former residence of Jimmy Page). It&#39;s on the market and the realtor&#39;s small photographs show that it&#39;s extremely beautiful. I tend to be easier than some other people when it comes to considering Letters To The Editor, having had the experience of being excoriated in the past for a couple of my own. I try, as one should, to keep them short and to the point – get in and get out – and I think they serve a purpose for the writer, the interested reader and the publication. There’s a lot to disagree with in Perkins’ letter, including the obviously overwrought comparison to Kristallnacht, but I think he’s basically expressing a concern (which the unconcerned might find clichéd or incorrect) about the corrosive and destructive effects liberal “political correctness” has when it dominates, ridicules in an excessive and juvenile way, and seeks to expunge other kinds of discourse. I don’t read the San Francisco newspapers, but I certainly see it in the New York Times (whose editor describes the news side of the paper&#39;s very obviously liberal slant as &quot;cosmopolitan,&quot; rather than Democrat-sympathetic) and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The fact that Perkins says kind things about his ex-wife, Danielle Steel, seems laudable to me. The “tweeted” criticism of Perkins by Kleiner Perkins (where he is still included on the website, laudatory section intro, bio and all, in order to ennoble and promote the firm), is laughable and unfortunate. What a bunch of hypocrites. My own past experience with technology venture capitalists at an internet bubble company makes me completely unsympathetic to them as a group (as a lawyer friend of mine says, the parties swimming in the exact center of the powerful money river that drives start-up investment have a strong tendency for personal corruption), but as far as sincerity goes, I’m inclined to credit a politically conservative v.c. with more of it than supposedly more “progressive” ones like John Doerr and Al Gore. It’s unimportant, but according to Wikipedia, the Maltese Falcon was sold in 2009. It’s too bad the Independent didn’t pick up on this, but incomplete research often accompanies “piling on.” I think the picture of the school bus at the top of the post is well chosen and certainly states the contrast with “Sailing In Style” effectively. CurtisACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56197544492726360172014-01-27T05:15:14.392-08:002014-01-27T05:15:14.392-08:00Wasn&#39;t the falcon in the movie just a fake? J...<br />Wasn&#39;t the falcon in the movie just a fake? Just so much brass!Dalriadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65769312191982524682014-01-27T02:20:11.348-08:002014-01-27T02:20:11.348-08:00Tom Perkins: The Greatest Sailboat Ever -- Maltese...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Mvu57FP3c" rel="nofollow">Tom Perkins: The Greatest Sailboat Ever -- Maltese Falcon (CNBC, 2007)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENpqkU6Ihs&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">Tom Perkins&#39; Maltese Falcon sails under the Golden Gate Bridge, 27 September 2008</a>TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com